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New podcast episode: heterosis in strawberries
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Is there such a thing as “good” inbreeding? Find out by listening to the newest episode of the GSA’s podcast “Genetics in Your World”: Breeding Better Berries: Inbreeding and Hybrid Vigor in Strawberries – A Conversation with Dr. Steven J. Knapp! In this episode, I interview Dr. Steven Knapp (UC Davis) about the fascinating genetics underlying hybrid vigor in strawberry cultivars and the genomic challenges facing plant breeders of the future.
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Conference presentation: AGA 2024
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I was an abstract-selected speaker at AGA 2024: Genomic Technologies and the Future of Conservation. I presented “The genetics of inbreeding depression in a pedigreed wild population of Florida Scrub-Jays”. View the highlights from my talk and others here!
New publication: Florida Scrub-Jay genome
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“A new high quality genome assembly for the Federally Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)” was just published in G3:Genes|Genomes|Genetics!
New pre-print: Florida Scrub-Jay genome
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Check out our new pre-print for a new Florida Scrub-Jay genome assembly and annotation. Long-read sequencing and a linkage map helped us add ~260 Mbp of sequence and find a few more chromosomes in comparison to previous assemblies.